Re: MacOS not "port" -able....wasRe: JUST REMEMBER WHY WINDOWS WAS CREATED!!!!!!!!!

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From: Gary Morris
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 1995 02:10

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In <3v8i5h$6gn@crcnis3.unl.edu> delancey@herbie.unl.edu (Andrew DeLancey) writes:
>BlackHoleQ (blackholeq@aol.com) wrote:

>: What about pre-emptive multitasking, protected memory, automatic disk
>: cache optimization, and a GUI that does not immediatly assume that the
>: user is a complete and utter newbie (how many control panel options on mac
>: say "Reccommended for experts and system administrators only"?).

>None that I've ever seen in the 7 or 8 years I've used Macs...  ;)

>Maybe you should actually use MacOS before you try to rip it apart.  It would
>be easy for me to make vague generalizations about Win95 when I've never seen
>it, but I don't.  You show your ignorance when you try to criticize something
>you've obviously never witnessed firsthand.

I've used some butchered verison of MacOS at school. It's got Menu Master
Mac or something on it. If that's what MacOS truly looks like, I suppose
it's not too bad. I like Warp much more, but at least on MacOS you can
have subfolders, unlike Windoze.



-- 
Gary Morris                         "Happily using OS/2 Warp!"
Sherwood Park Remote Systems
sprsys!garym@nl2k.edmonton.ab.ca

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Subject: Re: MacOS not "port" -able....wasRe: JUST REMEMBER WHY WINDOWS WAS CREATED!!!!!!!!!
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